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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






2. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






3. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






4. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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5. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






6. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






7. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






8. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






9. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






10. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






11. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






12. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






13. Wide Range Achievement Test






14. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






15. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






16. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






17. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






18. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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19. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






20. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






21. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






22. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






23. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






24. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






25. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






26. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






27. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






28. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






29. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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30. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






31. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






32. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






33. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






34. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






35. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






36. Final stable syllable

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37. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






38. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






39. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






40. Multisensory Structured Language






41. Ability to understand and express spoken language






42. State Board of Eduation






43. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






44. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






45. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






46. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






47. Whole body learning






48. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






49. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






50. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.